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Authors: [edited by] Bart D. Ehrman
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to Pilate and asked him, 30 “Give
still making their plans, the skies were
us some soldiers to guard his crypt for
again seen to open, and a person dethree days to keep his disciples from scended and entered the crypt. 45 Those
coming to steal him. Otherwise the people may assume he has been raised from the dead and then harm us.”
aOr it
34
NON-CANONICAL GOSPELS
who were with the centurion saw these
trance of the crypt, that we can go in, sit
things and hurried to Pilate at night,
beside him, and do what we should?
abandoning the tomb they had been
54 For it was a large stone, and we are
guarding, and explained everything they
afraid someone may see us. If we cannot
had seen. Greatly agitated, they said, “He
move it, we should at least cast down the
actually was the Son of God.” 46 Pilate
things we have brought at the entrance as
replied, “I am clean of the blood of the
a memorial to him; and we will weep and
Son of God; you decided to do this.”
beat our breasts until we return home.”
47 Then everyone approached him to
55 When they arrived they found the
ask and urge him to order the centurion
tomb opened. And when they came up to
and the soldiers to say nothing about
it they stooped down to look in, and they
what they had seen. 48 “For it is better,”
saw a beautiful young man dressed in a
they said, “for us to incur a great sin
very bright garment, sitting in the middle
before God than to fall into the hands of
of the tomb. He said to them, 56 “Why
the Jewish people and be stoned.” 49 And
have you come? Whom are you seeking?
so Pilate ordered the centurion and the
Not the one who was crucified? He has
soldiers not to say a word.
risen and left. But if you do not believe
50 Now Mary Magdalene, a disciple
it, stoop down to look, and see the place
of the Lord, had been afraid of the Jews,
where he was laid, that he is not there.
since they were inflamed with anger; and
For he has risen and left for the place
so she had not done at the Lord’s crypt
from which he was sent.” 57 Then the
the things that women customarily do for
women fled out of fear.
loved ones who die. But early in the
58 But it was the final day of the Feast
morning of the Lord’s day 51 she took
of Unleavened Bread, and many left to
some of her women friends with her and
return to their homes, now that the feast
came to the crypt where he had been
had ended. 59 But we, the twelve disciburied. 52 And they were afraid that the ples of the Lord, wept and grieved; and
Jews might see them, and they said,
each one returned to his home, grieving
“Even though we were not able to weep
for what had happened. 60 But I, Simon
and beat our breasts on the day he was
Peter, and my brother Andrew, took our
crucified, we should do these things now
nets and went off to the sea. And with us
at his crypt. 53 But who will roll away
was Levi, the son of Alphaeus, whom the
for us the stone placed before the en-
Lord. . . .
The Gospel of Mary
The Gospel of Mary is preserved in two Greek fragments of the third century and a fuller, but still incomplete, Coptic manuscript of the fifth. The book itself was composed sometime during the (late?) second century.
Even though we do not have the complete text, it was clearly an intriguing Gospel, for here, among other things, Mary (Magdalene) is accorded a high status among the apostles of Jesus. In fact, at the end of the text, the apostle Levi acknowledges to his comrades that Jesus “loved her more than us.” Mary’s special relationship with Jesus is seen above all in the circumstance that he reveals to her alone, in a vision, an explanation of the nature of things hidden from the apostles.
The Gospel divides itself into two parts. In the first, Jesus, after his resurrection, gives a revelation to all his apostles concerning the nature of sin, speaks a final blessing and exhortation, commissions them to preach the gospel, and then
still making their plans, the skies were
us some soldiers to guard his crypt for
again seen to open, and a person dethree days to keep his disciples from scended and entered the crypt. 45 Those
coming to steal him. Otherwise the people may assume he has been raised from the dead and then harm us.”
aOr it
34
NON-CANONICAL GOSPELS
who were with the centurion saw these
trance of the crypt, that we can go in, sit
things and hurried to Pilate at night,
beside him, and do what we should?
abandoning the tomb they had been
54 For it was a large stone, and we are
guarding, and explained everything they
afraid someone may see us. If we cannot
had seen. Greatly agitated, they said, “He
move it, we should at least cast down the
actually was the Son of God.” 46 Pilate
things we have brought at the entrance as
replied, “I am clean of the blood of the
a memorial to him; and we will weep and
Son of God; you decided to do this.”
beat our breasts until we return home.”
47 Then everyone approached him to
55 When they arrived they found the
ask and urge him to order the centurion
tomb opened. And when they came up to
and the soldiers to say nothing about
it they stooped down to look in, and they
what they had seen. 48 “For it is better,”
saw a beautiful young man dressed in a
they said, “for us to incur a great sin
very bright garment, sitting in the middle
before God than to fall into the hands of
of the tomb. He said to them, 56 “Why
the Jewish people and be stoned.” 49 And
have you come? Whom are you seeking?
so Pilate ordered the centurion and the
Not the one who was crucified? He has
soldiers not to say a word.
risen and left. But if you do not believe
50 Now Mary Magdalene, a disciple
it, stoop down to look, and see the place
of the Lord, had been afraid of the Jews,
where he was laid, that he is not there.
since they were inflamed with anger; and
For he has risen and left for the place
so she had not done at the Lord’s crypt
from which he was sent.” 57 Then the
the things that women customarily do for
women fled out of fear.
loved ones who die. But early in the
58 But it was the final day of the Feast
morning of the Lord’s day 51 she took
of Unleavened Bread, and many left to
some of her women friends with her and
return to their homes, now that the feast
came to the crypt where he had been
had ended. 59 But we, the twelve disciburied. 52 And they were afraid that the ples of the Lord, wept and grieved; and
Jews might see them, and they said,
each one returned to his home, grieving
“Even though we were not able to weep
for what had happened. 60 But I, Simon
and beat our breasts on the day he was
Peter, and my brother Andrew, took our
crucified, we should do these things now
nets and went off to the sea. And with us
at his crypt. 53 But who will roll away
was Levi, the son of Alphaeus, whom the
for us the stone placed before the en-
Lord. . . .
The Gospel of Mary
The Gospel of Mary is preserved in two Greek fragments of the third century and a fuller, but still incomplete, Coptic manuscript of the fifth. The book itself was composed sometime during the (late?) second century.
Even though we do not have the complete text, it was clearly an intriguing Gospel, for here, among other things, Mary (Magdalene) is accorded a high status among the apostles of Jesus. In fact, at the end of the text, the apostle Levi acknowledges to his comrades that Jesus “loved her more than us.” Mary’s special relationship with Jesus is seen above all in the circumstance that he reveals to her alone, in a vision, an explanation of the nature of things hidden from the apostles.
The Gospel divides itself into two parts. In the first, Jesus, after his resurrection, gives a revelation to all his apostles concerning the nature of sin, speaks a final blessing and exhortation, commissions them to preach the gospel, and then
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